[Detecting psychopathological symptoms in psychopharmacological studies on the course of disease (author's transl)]

Rating scales and self-rating scales are still indispensable for the estimation of psychopathological symptoms and their variations in the course of treatment with psychopharmacologic agents. So significant progress can be recognized in measurment of intelligence, degree of severity of functional psychoses, states of cerebral defects and of endogenous depressions. The promising results of this experience encourage intensifying the development of such test instruments concerning non-psychotic psychic disturbances as well as schizophrenic psychoses.